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Key facts
- Country
- Botswana
- Capital
- Mochudi
- Total
- 7,960 km (3,070 sq mi)
- Density
- 15.3/km (39.7/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( Central Africa Time )
- Hdi 2017
- 0.733 , high · 3rd
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Botswana
- Country
- Botswana
- Located in
- Botswana
- Capital
- Mochudi
- Population
- 91660
- Area
- 7960
- Elevation
- 935
- Time zone
- Central Africa Time
- Shares border with
- North West
- Image
- Mochudi.jpg
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- language used
- Tshwa
- topic's main category
- Category:Kgatleng District
- native label
- Kgatleng
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Encyclopedic overview
Kgatleng is one of the districts of Botswana, coterminous with the homeland of the Bakgatla people. Its capital is Mochudi, the hometown of protagonist Precious Ramotswe in Alexander McCall Smith's popular The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. According to the 2001 Census, Kgatleng had a population of 73,507.
Kgatleng borders the North West Province of South Africa in the south, and to the east it borders South Africa's Limpopo Province. Domestically, it borders South-East District in the southwest, Kweneng District in the west, and Central District in the north.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kgatleng District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.